day last time i sold some gold for about three hundred dollars it's good if we have

enough money to buy the necessities like flour tea sugar and salt gold is not that expensive it doesn't make you rich it's the end of the haymaking season oh so soon everyone will be at the river panning winter is coming. the mines are dug only in the winter it's dangerous to do it in the summer. when soil is frozen.

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it. only leaves his films to a couple of times. today is one of those exciting moments the head of the family is going to the market place in the administrative center of the region he wants to stock up for the winter. for a festive occasion. the gold brings him the money he needs. brother is everything ok.

yeah. good to see you once knew. as everywhere in central asia the kennedys marketplace on a sunday is like a forum people come here to talk about the latest news and to share gossip. i came to buy a lemon pay one hundred dollars for it i also bought some groceries i listen to what the elders had to say and it appears all is quiet around here everybody is talking about the winter most likely it will be bitter cold january temperatures sometimes drop to thirty six thirty seven degrees below zero. point. elma's is a man who buys up gold he's been in the business for almost ten years although

strictly speaking it's not entirely legal but elmer's no longer worries about his safety he's already made friends with some local policemen and competitors on his way back he makes a point of paying a courtesy visit to one of them the region's unofficial bus goes by the name of god . can you tell me the way to ask us house ask us house. turn right. thank you. just in time as preparing for a great festive occasion his youngest son is about to go through the ritual of circumcision the wealthiest man in the gold valley invites guests to his house where conversation inevitably drifts towards the grand occasion and of course gold . and they have been digging up gold here for centuries don't believe those who

says it's only been mined for the past fifty. years the technique has been passed down to us from our forefathers but then foreign companies brought their intel still methods in which are damaging the environment my son might end up asking me why we did nothing to prevent this that's what worries me. most of the foreign companies here are chinese and canadian they have actually been mining gold for several years every now and then almost bumps into temporary townships for miners as he continues on his journey every machines grind tons of sand on the river banks foreign business methods irritate local people. some fifteen years ago i don't remember exactly but foreign firms came here mostly

chinese and indian. there are also many russian prospects in companies to. the chinese bring their own workers with them. sometimes the locals just wouldn't let the chinese workers do their jobs. those were troubled times but neither side resorted to fighting fortunately. it was never been years and it all petered out eventual. we're not in canada or america here we're in asia you know. when elmer's was on his way to widespread unrest flared up in the carriages capital disturbances began following a rally in support of a proposal to nationalize the comptroller goldfield the canadian firm that develops

and pays more in taxes than any other taxpayer in the country. hundreds. and.

business here. his guys. this. makeshift. not even jewelers can refine gold let alone others only one or two jewelers and one hundred know how to do it this is fine you need sink to be able to separate gold from other elements like silver and. this is how i do it i'm not gold in

a crucible and then add zinc to it one and a half grams of zinc for each gram of gold. as soon as it's melted down i put the mixture in a flask containing acid or the gold then forms in chloroform. refining with zinc is the most hazardous method the gas released is extremely poisonous and for that reason the process is usually done in the open air the acid takes about fifteen to twenty minutes to remove all the impurities the color of the liquid gradually turns turquoise and a brown sediment is clearly visible at the bottom of the flask there it is coral gold it will turn yellow after i melt it down. the flames work

a chemical miracle with brown flakes gradually forming into a small golden nugget. nater nine years ago i would have refined three hundred grams of gold by dividing it into pieces and melting each of them with gold is only a material i am a jeweler and a dental technician. i believe gold means different things to different people i do know that my wife is fond of it yet i make ornaments for her myself. turned out well. the end of the season by throwing a modest party for themselves. they've made enough pay for the winter for their youngest son alton back is almost ready and to top it all off they've sold the gold this means they can afford meat for dinner.

that. fire. for. money is the problem if you've got to know if you'll be ok that's why we pan for gold sun cows are expensive today you can sell a call for sixty years seventy thousand last year the prices have gone up there was already a lot of snow here in november god knows what happens this year the summer was warm so that means cool winter like it was last year when there was three or four metres of snow luckily we were ready for it. didn't show up for an hour earlier he fell out with his father drank a lot of vodka and went off into the mountains is worried.

he's been away for two hours this is brother looking for him i pray to god he doesn't hang himself to. in mine gold wearing and selling it is the exclusive domain of women. gold market place is the busiest spot in town. a brisk trade is found here every morning local jewelers can fix a broken ornament and why it and if asked they'll also check the quality and standard of gold. is an uzbek he says he's just an ordinary jeweler but his modest appearance and simple looking place are misleading . is among the most important people in the gold marketplace he plays

a large part in turning the gold extract in from faraway mountains into rings and earrings. there are many homemade things around including those from other countries some of them conform to standards others don't. know are checks the jewelry that people bring to him he determines the quality of the metal using several simple procedures. or do you want me to check it. if the gold is good and the acid it won't turn it black and if it's homemade well made by hand it might turn black you know yep it's turning black now as you can see this one was made by hand but it wasn't done well. but this one is good. it's fourteen karat gold. people trust each other and you always need to check no matter whether you are from someone you know i will not the number of customers can vary from twenty thirty sometimes fifty.

obviously the marketplace is only the tip of the iceberg large scale trading in gold and poultry grams in a market is hidden from public eyes. knew where the gold streaming from. it's headed to neighboring uzbekistan and then on to iran and the arab emirates it's possible that some of those shipments may well have a few of the grounds that. those pound from their river of gold. the youngest of the brothers came back from the mountains after going missing the day before he's tired and still drunk without injuring his father's house helton back gets down to the job he knows best panning for gold.

i think i'm lucky to be a kurd is. that's good to know that i was born in the chad color region. i live like any other kurd is i don't need anything apart from what i already have . no mentally i don't want my children to do the same job standing on cold water and ruining their health but i'll go on doing it to earn enough money so that in the future my children don't go through the same hardships that i.

well we have. groups. all. right enough to my mind it was like. it wasn't. this money when i was fifteen years old you can't live there when you certainly can't do it through the barrel of a gun only effective social change you can be the afghans themselves

ask and many women believe i'm going to spawn because not to a cross. but. it's a position and that it comes to actually stop people in the obama administration talking about how much they care about the women of afghanistan it's not true they don't care about the women of afghanistan.

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